The Mercy Culture Prep Royals will be staying on the road on Friday to face off against the First Baptist Saints at 7:00 p.m. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Mercy Culture Prep is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They breezed by Covenant Christian to the tune of 43-0.
Landon Martinez went supernova for Mercy Culture Prep, rushing for 144 yards and two touchdowns on only ten carries, while also throwing for 275 yards and two touchdowns while completing 83.3% of his passes. Martinez's longest rush was for an incredible 71 yards. Jon Anthony Lardizabal was another key player, gaining 160 total yards and a touchdown.
Mercy Culture Prep didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Julius Owens and Walker Hughes. Owens has been hot recently, having also posted seven or more total tackles the last four times he's played.
Mercy Culture Prep was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 205 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in September.
Meanwhile, First Baptist was fully in charge two weeks ago, breezing past Sacred Heart 46-6. The result was nothing new for the Saints, who have now won eight matchups by 29 points or more so far this season.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead First Baptist to victory, but perhaps none more so than Zykhius Wapskineh, who picked up 145 receiving yards and two touchdowns. The team also got some help courtesy of Dylan Jones, who threw for 168 yards and three touchdowns while completing 83.3% of his passes.
First Baptist pushed their record up to 9-1 with the victory, which was their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 37.9 points. As for Mercy Culture Prep, their win bumped their record up to 4-7.
Mercy Culture Prep was dealt a bruising 48-0 defeat at the hands of First Baptist when the teams last played back in September. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of First Baptist's Quincy Rheams, who threw for 200 yards and two touchdowns while completing 73.7% of his passes, and also rushed for 80 yards on only seven carries. Now that Mercy Culture Prep knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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